The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-05
THINGS

Custer county's total assessment is
S ,79O.555.
1t is deemed certain that the Union
Pacific will construct the National Park
branch.
At Miles City there is a lull in cattle
shipment, thelow market causing owners
to hold of DIS long as possible,
The New Northwest says that the
railroad war" will have a new signifi-
canoe for Montanians within Il twelve
month.
The grade is now completed to Great
Falls and Contractor Jones' force have
turned their faces eastward, bringing up
the rear guard of the returning graders.
W. C. Sweet of the Chestnut valley,
has been prosecuting Il man. in the dis
trict court at White Sulphur Springs, for
branding twenty head ofhis cattle. The
branding was done about a year ago at
Townsend, after the cattle had been I'M
loaded from the train.
The late Col. Thornton of Butte fancied
that he could walk off any ailment hat
affected him. If he did not feel well he
would go out on the hills and walk from
six TO ten miles as rapidly as possible,
returning home bathed in perspiration.
He died at the age of 81.
.. Gilman has sold and shipped to L..
A. Winchester at Great Falls, the ar
tesian well boring apparatus with which
Sthmalsle & ullman have done SO much
good work in times past IN Miles City.
Winchester has severol contracts for well
boring at Great Falls.-Yellowstone
Journal.
A new town has recently been located
in the Castle mountains some three or
four miles east of the town of Castle and
christened "Roberson," in honor Of the
pioneer miner of this section, Geo.
Robertson. 1t now contains a saloon
and eating house, one or two other
cabins and nearly Il dozen tents.-Hus-
bandman.
Word lme from Red Lodge, sixty
miles south of Billings. that there have
been placer mines discovered there
within the last two davs. They yield
besides lar e nuggets, ten cents to the
pan. Considerable excitement has been
caused by this and there are indications
of a stampede from here. The ranches
in the neighborl.ood of the discovery
are rapidly being stakel out in claims
Gazette.
The many friends of Judge Mayhem
will be sorry to learn that he was quite
painfully Injured Thursday by being
thrown from his horse while on his way
to Wardner. The accident occurred on
the steep trail between the hill grade of
the Two Mile road, from the head of
the west fork and the bottom of the
gulch.-CTur d'Alene Record, 9th.
The Missoula hunters have arranged
for q contest similar to that Of last year
to come off Oct. II and 10, Of this year,
and to end with a great game banquet on
the evening of the 18th. The respective
teams, consisting of 10 men each, are
captained by Harry Stephens and Henry
Worden. The record is kept by points,
elk, moose, grizzly and silver up bear
counting 1000 points each, and down to
5 points for a plover.
Will Thomas, stock inspector for Cho-
teau county, is IN the city TO day. Mr..
Thomas has just returned from Sweet
lands ranch and he informs us that on
the Dearborn and in that section horses
are dying in great numbers and that ali
efforts to check the progress of the
disease prove futile. Horses on the
range as well as about the ranches are
alike affected and it is reported that one
MAJ. lost l60 head. The disease is the
same apparently as the one hat pre-
vailed OH the Chestnut range last fall.
The animals are affected in the groins
and once taken with the disease there
seems to he no remedy for il.
Special to the Independent.-Sep-
TENDER ODD, Mrs Merit Havens.
wife of a railroad grader, TO all out
ward appearances committed suicide.
The coroner's jurv so rendered their
verdict. Comments were made at the
time that the position of the body, the
story told by l~Iavens and other little
details did not exactly correspond to the
idea of self-destruction. 1t now turns
out that instead of Mrs. Ravens com
hitting suicide, she was brutally MUIR.
dered. The scent of the murder MS
heretofore described was at the bend of
the Sun River, near Great Falls.
To Sheriff Black and his deputy associ-
ates, great credit is due for the manner
in which the arrest was made. Suspect
ing foul play, Black took the matter in
hand and the result was the arrest Of
Ravens charged with the murder. He
is now safely lodged in Jail and will have
a preliminary examination in a few
days. Enough evidence has been col
lected to convict him.
Prohibition Amendment Defeated.